Each Trinamool Congress and SP haven’t been eager on sharing house with the grand outdated occasion.
Kolkata:
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, after a quick assembly together with her Bihar counterpart Nitish Kumar and his deputy Tejashwi Yadav right this moment, stated that she has “no ego” concerning a grand alliance of anti-BJP events and that it is going to be the folks vs BJP in subsequent yr’s basic elections. She claimed she has earlier too stated that she has no objection to all like-minded Opposition events getting collectively for the large electoral battle.
“I’ve made only one request to Nitish Kumar. Jayaprakash (Narayan) ji’s motion began from Bihar. If we’ve an all-party assembly in Bihar, we are able to then resolve the place we’ve to go subsequent. However first, we’ve to provide a message that we’re united. I’ve stated earlier, too, that I’ve no objections. I would like BJP to change into zero. They’ve change into a giant hero with the media’s assist and lies,” she stated whereas addressing the media with the 2 high Bihar leaders by her facet.
On the proposed one-seat-one-candidate components floated by Nitish Kumar’s occasion, she stated that “if thought, imaginative and prescient, and mission are clear, there will likely be no points”.
Calling it a “very constructive dialogue”, Nitish Kumar stated they mentioned making all preparations forward of the upcoming elections.
“Those that are ruling now, don’t have anything to do. They’re simply doing their very own publicity. Nothing is being carried out for the nation’s improvement,” he stated.
On a mission to convey collectively opposition events who don’t have any love misplaced for Congress, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had earlier right this moment reached the West Bengal state secretariat in Kolkata to fulfill Ms Banerjee in his push to forge a grand alliance in opposition to the BJP. Nitish Kumar and Tejashwi Yadav are later scheduled to fly to Lucknow to fulfill Samajwadi Social gathering chief Akhilesh Yadav.
Each Trinamool Congress and SP haven’t been eager on sharing house with the grand outdated occasion.
Akhilesh Yadav has made it clear that he has little interest in a entrance that features the Congress — attending just a few conferences with like-minded opposition events, together with Telangana Chief Minister Okay Chandrasekhar Rao. He had not pulled punches both after crashing within the 2017 polls, which he contested in alliance with the Congress.
Mamata Banerjee hasn’t held again from attacking Congress both, particularly for the reason that occasion snatched an meeting seat from her occasion within the latest by-elections within the state.
Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification as a Lok Sabha MP not too long ago precipitated a uncommon present of unity throughout Opposition events, after which efforts to unite in opposition to the BJP picked tempo with the assembly between Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge, and Nitish Kumar and Tejashwi Yadav. Nitish Kumar has additionally met with Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Social gathering boss Arvind Kejriwal, one of many harshest critics of Congress, who conceded that it was “extraordinarily vital” that your entire opposition and the nation got here collectively and alter the federal government on the Centre.
Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal United (JDU) has proposed what they name the “Nitish components” of opposition unity, sources say.
“The one approach to win in opposition to Narendra Modi is to comply with a one-against-one coverage in 2024, which implies one seat, one candidate from the opposition in opposition to the BJP candidate,” stated senior Janata Dal-United chief KC Tyagi.
The one-against-one components to stop a cut up within the opposition vote, which labored in 1977 and 1989, is being seen as a potent weapon in opposition to the BJP and PM Modi’s election juggernaut, although there’s not a lot confidence that the rival opposition events can agree on a truce.